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Bingsha Shatabdi
Established in 1956, Bingsha Shatabdi follows two different trends in publication, It brings out direct translations from various European languages like French, Dutch, German into Bangla. It deals with both contemporary and classical literature. Its second goal is to publish collections of essays in Bangla and English, and its area of concentration is Social Science And Ancient Indian Civilization and Culture.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2023In the company of wolves
Werewolves, wolves and wild children
by Sam George, Bill Hughes
In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, wild children and werewolves as portrayed in different media and genres. We begin with the wolf itself as it has been interpreted as a cultural symbol and how it figures in contemporary debates about wilderness and nature. Alongside this, we consider eighteenth-century debates about wild children - often thought to have been raised by wolves and other animals - and their role in key questions about the origins of language and society. The collection continues with essays on werewolves and other shapeshifters as depicted in folk tales, literature, film and TV, concluding with the transition from animal to human in contemporary art, poetry and fashion.
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Children's & YASeawalkers (2). Rescuing Shari
by Katja Brandis/ Claudia Carls
For the attention of all Seawalker fans: the marine shapeshifters are back, with Volume 2 of this bestselling, shapeshifter series about Tiago, the young tiger shark, and his friends! Tiago is happy because he’s not only been admitted to Blue Reef High School, but also because at last he’s found a friend in Shari, a dolphin shapeshifter. The young tiger shark really needs a friend, because not everyone is happy to have him around. He is constantly clashing with the shady lawyer Lydia Lennox, and he has made himself unpopular by trying to track down the rubbish gangsters who are poisoning the nature reserve near the school. The situation reaches a climax during an anthropological research trip to Miami. When Shari gets into serious difficulties, Tiago as both human and shark takes a huge gamble in order to save her and her dolphin friends. The Seawalker books are published every six months. Previous publication: Seawalkers (1). Dangerous Shapes.
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Children's & YASeawalkers (3). Wild Waves
by Katja Brandis/Claudia Carls
The students and teachers at Blue Reef High are worried sick. It’s not just because recently there’s been an influx of reptile and python shapeshifters who are causing chaos. Now there’s a powerful hurricane building up off the coast of Florida. Tiago, the shark shapeshifter, the dolphin girl Shari and all their friends decide to escape by swimming out to the open sea. But will they really be safe there? And will Blue Reef High still be standing when they return? Quite apart from the hurricane, Tiago has heard some unpleasant rumours – that some unscrupulous business people are going to organize fights between divers and sharks. Is this true, and if so, will the Seawalker friends be able to defend themselves?
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Children's & YAWoodwalkers & Friends (1). Fantastic Feline Friends
by Katja Brandis/Claudia Carls
You have never seen the Woodwalkers like this before: find out about the lives of the puma boy Carag and his shapeshifting friends outside the school walls. The young puma shapeshifter Carag is really looking forward to the school holidays. He’s going to visit the family of his girlfriend Tikaani for the first time, so that they can celebrate her birthday together. But before they can head for the far north, they are overtaken by events. First, two self-willed companions join them, and then Carag receives a call for help from his own puma family. A hostile wolf pack has taken over their old den close to Clearwater High. There is something not quite right about these wolves. As the situation becomes increasingly fiery, Carag and Tikaani know they can rely on help from Holly the chipmunk. But will the three of them be able to save the day?
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Children's & YAChetaah Summer
by Katja Brandis
When a travel adventure becomes a journey to yourself! For all readers who long to follow the wide world’s call to freedom. Especially for all the WOODWALKERS fans who have grown up. An unforgettable experience is waiting for Lily: she is off to work on a farm in Namibia where they work to protect endangered cheetahs. The German vet’s daughter will help care for injured big cats, raise orphaned young animals and assist with field research in the bush. A dream comes true for her! Lily’s trip goes well until she falls in love with Eric, the son of a neighbouring farmer. His strange family and their secrets plunge her life into chaos. Katja Brandis, whose WOODWALKERS series regularly conquers the bestseller lists by storm, is back with an environmental novel about the protection of cheetahs in Namibia. Authentic, sympathetic and completely devoid of kitsch sunset pathos.
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FictionBloodfire
by Helen Harper
Mackenzie Smith has always known that she was different. Growing up as the only human in a pack of rural shapeshifters will do that to you, but then couple it with some mean fighting skills and a fiery temper and you end up with a woman that few will dare to cross. However, when the only father figure in her life is brutally murdered, and the dangerous Brethren with their predatory Lord Alpha come to investigate, Mack has to not only ensure the physical safety of her adopted family by hiding her apparent humanity, she also has to seek the blood-soaked vengeance that she craves.
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Children's & YAOctober 2020The Legend of Ataoja
by Ayo Oyeku
Oriade is a rightful heir to the throne of Osogbo Kingdom. Things took an unexpected turn when ‘Femi, his stepfather, wrestled and claimed the throne with a strange power that enabled him to shapeshift into wild beasts and mysterious things. Terror swept over the kingdom and all hope was lost. It is left for Oriade to flee from the palace, forge new alliances, embark on a long journey, and do the impossible in order to defeat the ruthless king.
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December 2014Ilya and the Wolf
Out of Print
by Rory Ni Coileain, Paul Richmond, Paul Richmond
Ilya, the youngest son of a Moscow oligarch, is so deep in the closet he’d find Narnia if that weren’t a decadent Western story. On Christmas Eve, his brothers lure him into the forest, intending to murder him and erase the shame he inflicts on their family by existing. However, the attempt is interrupted by Volyk, a wolf who carries the blood of the ancient oboroten’ —shapeshifters. Ilya never imagined a Christmas gift like the handsome wolf, but accepting what Volyk offers will have consequences that change both of their lives forever.A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2014 Advent Calendar package "Celebrate!". ;
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FantasyMarch 2010Frost Moon
by Anthony Francis
In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local cafes, shapeshifters party at urban clubs, vampires rule the southern night like gangsters, and mysterious creatures command dark caverns beneath the city, Dakota Frost's talents are coveted by all. She's the best magical tattooist in the southeast, a Skindancer, able to bring her amazing tats to life. When a serial killer begins stalking Atlanta's tattooed elite, the police and the Feds seek Dakota's help. Can she find the killer on the dark fringe of the city's Edgeworld? Among its powerful outcasts and tortured loners, what kind of enemies and allies will she attract? Will they see her as an invader, as a seducer, as an unexpected champion ... or as delicious prey?
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FictionSeptember 2021Strange Tales from Japan
99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural
by Keisuke Nishimoto
Prepare to be spooked by these chilling Japanese short stories!Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches of the Japanese countryside. 33 color woodblock prints and over 55 b&w illustrations of these creatures, who have inhabited the Japanese imagination for centuries, bring the stories to life.The captivating tales in this volume include: The Vengeance of Oiwa—The terrifying spirit of a woman murdered by her husband who seeks retribution from beyond the grave The Curse of Okiku—A servant girl is murdered by her master and curses his family, with gruesome results The Snow Woman—A man is saved by a mysterious woman who swears him to secrecy Tales of the Kappa—Strange human-like sprites with green, scaly skin who live in water and are known to pull children and animals to their deaths And many, many more! In his introduction, renowned translator William Scott Wilson explains the role these stories play in local Japanese culture and folklore, and their importance to understanding the Japanese psyche. Readers will learn which particular region, city, mountain or temple the stories originate from—in case you're brave enough to visit these haunts yourself!
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Historical fiction (Children's/YA)October 2004Shapeshifters at Cilgerran
by Whittaker, Liz
The second volume of a fantasy trilogy about two psychic teenage children who experience wonderful and scary adventures as they travel between present-day Pembrokeshire and the Celtic underworld, looking for a magic brooch, with reference to Welsh myths;
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Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)November 2019Sebastián y los metamorfos
by Alvaro Vanegas
Sebastian was an ordinary young man until an accident left him orphaned and near death. From that moment on, a new family, supernatural powers, and immortality
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FantasyTwilight & Ashes
Book Three of the Fallen Lands Trilogy
by Patrick Park-Tighe
Dark days have descended on the Fallen Lands. Cat Calhoun, finally accepting his destiny as the Pandarin, finds life as his generation's champion defined by compromise and sacrifice. The Forever King, still haunted by a tragic past, looks to the shape the Summer Coast's present and future through war. Behind all of it, the scheming shapeshifter, Grandmother Rose, inches closer to the fruition of her grand design--a world without hope, its sacred histories lost. A Red Seer and black magyck, old rivalries and new alliances collide in a struggle that threatens to send the Summer Coast spiralling into chaos.
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December 2009Hero
Out of Print
by Heidi Cullinan, Paul Richmond, Paul Richmond
Hal Porter is no man’s hero; he’s just another Los Angeles construction worker. So when he sees a building appear on what the day before was an empty plot of weeds—a site where people have been found dead—Hal knows a guy like him should steer clear of whatever is going on. But a vision at the building's window draws him inside, and there Hal finds Morgan, a magical shapeshifter held captive by a rival clan... and Hal’s the only one who can save him.It doesn’t take Hal long to realize he’s in over his head, not only because the clan has powers beyond his imagination but also because he’s fallen in love with Morgan. There’s no escape for them now without a hero to break the curse, and Hal knows it can’t be him. But as Hal and Morgan work together, they discover gifts far more powerful than magic and that heroes aren’t always in shapes they expect.Best Gay Fantasy 2010 - Tied for First Place ;
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September 2012The Sparrow and the Hawk
by Lynda Miller
Jillie Harte (code name—the Sparrow) a documentary film maker is an agent for the NAS (Normal, Abnormal, Strange) Agency. Her assignment—find The Carmaletta Choker before it falls into the wrong hands and destroys the world. Franklin Doherty and associates are suspected of having the choker, and they are definitely the wrong hands! To get close to Franklin, Jillie is producing a film on “Decoration, Fashion, and Accessories Throughout History," featuring his antique collection. Her assignment is complicated by Griff Ryland, her new, hot cameraman, who is also looking for the necklace. Griff is an enigma. Is he friend or foe? And why is she so distracted by his "pure sex on a stick" appeal? Like the Sparrow, Griff, aka the Hawk, needs to retrieve the choker. It disappeared from his dimension years before, and his job is to bring it back. Since he can shapeshift into a hawk or a mountain lion at a moment's notice, Griff feels certain of success. But he doesn't bargain for a sassy, sexy redhead—and for his overwhelming urge to settle their differences in bed. Now Griff and Jillie must not only overcome the deadly dark forces who want the choker, but they must also face their developing relationship. And they thought saving the world from evil and chaos was hard.
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April 2014The Sparrow and the Vixens Three
by Lynda Miller
Jillie Hart (code name—the Sparrow) teams up with mysterious agent and shapeshifter Griff Ryland, (aka The Hawk) for the NAS agency (Normal, Abnormal and Strange) in the case of the deadly Carmaletta Choker. Now the choker’s curse is more powerful than ever, and the universe hovers on the brink of collapse. While most of the world remains unaware, in Hollywood, a new production company is casting a film about a necklace with mystical powers—a tale eerily reminiscent of the Carmaletta Choker. Jillie and Griff are determined to stay close to the action, so they pair up again under the guise of shooting a documentary—this one on the making of the new film. They are unaware that Declan, the sinister shape shifter who had previously possessed the necklace, and Gailan, an ancient earth mother who dwells in The Garden of the Gods, have teamed up with three Japanese werefoxes who are masquerading as stunningly beautiful women. Theirplan? To seduce Griff into joining the side of evil and helping them recover the necklace. Conflicted by her mixed feelings of love, desire and anger toward Griff’s betrayal, Jillie has no choice . . . . To save the world, The Sparrow must first save The Hawk. And to do that, she’s going to have to prove to the seductive werefoxes—and herself—that what Griff needs is real woman!
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FictionJune 2020The Cat and the City
by Nick Bradley
**5 reprints, 10,000 copies sold in 2months in lockdown** A stray tortoiseshell cat weaves in and out of seemingly disparate lives across Tokyo in the build up to the 2020 Olympics. The cat sees all, and where the cat leads the humans will follow... The 30 million inhabitants of Tokyo rub shoulders every day – but do they really see each other? Among them: a tattoo artist beholden to traditional methods is caught up in a mind-bending commission; a homeless man is squatting in an abandoned capsule hotel; an overworked taxi driver is still grieving his wife’s death; an American translator is struggling to adjust to her new big city life; a shutin hermit is afraid to leave his house; a video game champion is searching for romance. Lives touched by isolation, loneliness, and sadness. But in one of the largest megacities in the world, not everything is as disconnected as it seems. A mythical cat, shapeshifting and wonderous, dances through the streets of Tokyo. And, as it does so, it brushes up against the lives of those who live there and connects them in unexpected and, at times, magical ways. THE CAT AND THE CITY is a treasure of a novel; disturbing, delightful and formally playful, it is at once a meditation on modern existence and a lithe thrill-ride through the less-glimpsed back alleys of Tokyo.
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FictionJuly 2022SILK FIRE
by ZR Ellor
Koré, a courtesan in a city-planet ruled by women, seeks to sabotage his aristocrat father's campaign for their neighborhood’s imperial throne. Aided by a fragile coalition of allies, including Faziz—a male crime lord who swiftly and unnervingly sees past Koré’s pleasant facade—and Rita— a fun-loving scholar-adventurer—he recruits and campaigns for a more "traditional" candidate to challenge his father. As Koré and Ria investigate his father's allies, they uncover the use of necromancy: a dark art that corrupts, controls, and destroys the precious, limited magical essence that supports all human life on the city-planet. Koré extends some fragile trust to Faziz and Ria so they can discover how deep the threat reaches. But when a chance encounter with a dying god blesses him with the shapeshifting, essencebreathing powers of a dragon, Koré becomes a commodity; if discovered, he'll be imprisoned and forced to breathe magic for the throne. His deepening affection for Faziz and Ria forces him to push them away, but the corruption in his city runs deeper than just one man, and an ally's betrayal unleashes an army of the dead on his home street. Koré must trust the world with his deepest secret to stand beside the woman and man he's finally let himself love, as only the bright truth of dragon's fire can break the iron fist of a necromancer's hold.
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FictionStan Lee's The Devil's Quintet: The Armageddon Code
Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet - Book One
by Jay Bonansinga
From the legendary imagination of the late, great Stan Lee comes a mind-bending origin story for a new group of superheroes. STAN LEE'S THE DEVIL’S QUINTET: THE ARMAGEDDON CODE is the first book in this timely, terrifying, action-packed series co-written with Jay Bonansinga, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor. Book One follows the dark destiny of five talented deep-cover intelligence operatives who stumble into a deadly trap set for them by an infamous warlord. But just when things seem hopeless for our five heroes – each one bound and gagged in a hellish torture chamber – enter one monstrous being from the pits of hell known by true believers as the Prince of Darkness. This ghastly, shapeshifting denizen of the netherworld makes our heroes an offer they can’t refuse. It just so happens that Satan needs a strike team to track down fugitive humans who have signed over their souls but have reneged. In return for this service, our heroes will be imbued with unimaginable powers… Part action, part supernatural thriller, part modern fable for our complicated times, STAN LEE’S THE DEVIL'S QUINTET: THE ARMAGEDDON CODE will mark the beginning of a new breed of superhero...as well as a phenomenal new series of novels.
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July 2013Magick Rising
by Parker Blue
Every sort of magick collides in these six paranormal tales of magick and romance . . . Magick Justice from P.J. Bishop, a wonderful new voice in urban fantasy A man on a mission to save his soul and a young reporter descended from a Samurai magicker must risk everything in a fight against a Rising of Demons. Spirits Rising from RITA winner Evelyn Vaughn A little haunted history is what Penny expects when staging a Victorian mansion in Galveston. What this amateur ghostbuster doesn’t expect is a mysterious stranger and a dark curse. Blood Rising from RITA finalist and Reader’s Choice award winning author Karen Fox When revenge for her sister’s killer drives a vampire slayer’s every thought, can she put aside her vengeance long enough to trust the one man who can help her? A Shift in Magick from Golden Heart winner Laura Hayden Private investigator Jonathan Craft’s tricks-of-the-trade include the carefully guarded secret of his shapeshifting. A routine case turns dangerous and forces him to rethink everything he knows about his life. Destiny Rising from popular romance writer Jodi Dawson writing as Jodi Anderson Celeste and Erik have serious history. Centuries ago she doubly damned herself by killing the man she loved to save the world from an evil wizard. Her one chance to bring him back to her has gone horribly wrong. Wolf Rising from bestselling YA author Parker Blue Duncan Gray desperately needs a cure for the lycanthropy that is killing him. His last hope is a Wiccan woman with secrets and fears of her own.
